Sculpting stories project: an action research with sociocultural animators for promoting digital storytelling within socioeducation paths

Abstract

‘Sculpting stories’ is a national project funded by Law No. 383/2000 which allowed approval of experimental projects to meet important social emergencies and to facilitate the application of advanced methods of intervention for developing personal and social empowerment. Target group of project was children with sociocultural disadvantage in residential care facilities. The need of enhancing educational interventions for children under 18 years old is determined by the configuration of Italian welfare system that provides for the decreases of social protection measures for young people when they come of age. Theoretical assumption that has guided the action research was the relationship between self transformation processes due to the use of methods of sociocultural animation, education as a tool for change and identity construction and the new perspectives offered by technological evolution.